Education: Rump College

When President Hamilton Holt of Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.) ousted Professor John Andrew Rice last spring as a too-outspoken individualist (TIME, June 19 et seq.), he split his college into two angry factions, a large pro and a small anti. Out of the Rollins rumpus last week emerged a jump college. The antis clung together, their number increased to nine (out of a faculty of 45) by dismissals and resignations after the college year ended. They looked for financial backing and a place to settle. They found both. The site is a...

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